Entry requirements

Access to HE Diploma

GCSE/National 4/National 5

GCSE grade C or above in English, Maths and Science or grade 4 if awarded after August 2017

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About this course

Source: UCAS

Course option

3.0years

Full-time | 2020

Subject

Primary teaching

Overview
Teaching in a primary school is one of the most rewarding careers you can have. You will be working with a team of teachers and other adults, to support children (aged 5 to 11) to succeed both inside and outside the classroom. The course is taught by expert tutors with extensive experience working in educational settings, ensuring you are well supported to achieve the best results whilst achieving Qualified Teacher Status.

Why study BA Primary Education (with QTS) at Middlesex University?
Our extensive history of delivering leading education courses ensures that you benefit from the guidance of expert tutors who bring a wealth of professional experience to their teaching. As a primary school teacher you will make a difference to children's development by engaging and motivating pupils, and enhancing their life choices and opportunities. Our degree will train you to confidently teach all the subjects in the National Curriculum.

Alongside theory you will put your learning into practice by taking part in placements to prepare you for your career. We have excellent relationships with as wide variety of carefully selected primary schools in north London and the Home Counties and many of our students secure their first job with a placement host. This is a highly competitive course and we are seeking outstanding candidates with the right acumen, experience and skills to become excellent teachers.

Course highlights
Combine studying with classroom experience in our partner primary schools in London and the Home Counties
Primary teacher training at Middlesex University has been rated good with outstanding features by Ofsted, the official body for inspecting schools and education, so you can be confident of the quality of our courses
In your third year you have the opportunity to study abroad in Australia, USA or Europe
You can choose to follow a specialism in mathematics or science
In you second year you have the opportunity to undertake a placement in a school for children with special educational needs and disabilities
As a student of this course you'll receive a free electronic textbook for every module.
If you're considering applying or have already applied to us, please visit the Wiki created by our primary tutors to find out more about the programme, including the trainees' perspectives.

The Uni

What students say

We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

72%

low

Primary teaching

How do students rate their degree experience?

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Student voice

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

Sociology

C

Psychology

D

English Literature

C

After graduation

Source: DHLE and HECSU

The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Teacher training

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£25,000

high

Average annual salary

100%

med

Employed or in further education

51%

med

Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

95%

Teaching and educational professionals

5%

Health associate professionals

The stats above mainly cover teaching degrees for training and qualifying in primary school education. These tend to be three or four-year courses — check with course tutors about how long you will need to study to get your Qualified Teacher Status. Most graduates go into teaching roles — usually primary school teaching, so these courses have good employment rates and starting salaries. We have a shortage of teachers of all kinds, which is deepening, and whilst many of the most severe are at secondary level, the prospects for this degree are not likely to take a downturn any time soon.

What about your long term prospects?

Source: LEO

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Primary teaching

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£20k

£20k

First year

£24k

£24k

Third year

£28k

£28k

Fifth year

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF):

We've received this information from the Department for Education, via Ucas. This is how the university as a whole has been rated for its quality of teaching: gold silver or bronze. Note, not all universities have taken part in the TEF.

This information comes from the National Student Survey, an annual student survey of final-year students. You can use this to see how satisfied students studying this subject area at this university, are (not the individual course).

We calculate a mean rating of all responses to indicate whether this is high, medium or low compared to the same subject area at other universities.

This information is from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

You can use this to get an idea of who you might share a lecture with and how they progressed in this subject, here. It's also worth comparing typical A-level subjects and grades students achieved with the current course entry requirements; similarities or differences here could indicate how flexible (or not) a university might be.

Post-six month graduation stats:

This is from the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Survey, based on responses from graduates who studied the same subject area here.

It offers a snapshot of what grads went on to do six months later, what they were earning on average, and whether they felt their degree helped them obtain a 'graduate role'. We calculate a mean rating to indicate if this is high, medium or low compared to other universities.

While there are lots of factors at play when it comes to your future earnings, use this as a rough timeline of what graduates in this subject area were earning on average one, three and five years later. Can you see a steady increase in salary, or did grads need some experience under their belt before seeing a nice bump up in their pay packet?